Tech bros are lying to you about the MacBook Neo (opens in new tab)

I agree that the lack of backlight keyboard and touch ID isn't a serious limitation but 8 GB of ram would be probably be hardly usable, especially on tahoe.

> For one, any M2 or M3 Air is likely to be refurbished, and any M4 you find will be several hundred dollars more than the Neo.

Refurbished by Apple devices tend to be really good deals, not sure why this is being knocked. It's also better for the environment

Nothing against the MacBook Neo, but this reads like an advertisement.

> It’s all lies.

> And now tech influencers are recommending buying one [M2 MacBook Air] four years later because they don’t want to admit that the MacBook Neo got everything right.

This whole article feels like a thinly veiled ad, or at least extreme fanboyism. It lacks objectivity. It’s a good machine for the price, but no, it did not “get everything right”, and no, not everybody making any criticism or comparison is “lying to you”.

It’s a fine computer. “Tech Bros” say stupid things about low-cost Windows computers too.

If I had a complaint about the Neo, it’s the screen aspect ratio. The smaller the screen, the closer you need to be 3:2. Open a Google doc on a school-issue Chromebook. It’s laughable how little space is available for the actual content on those junk 16:9 screens. This Neo is 16:10. Better, but not a whole lot. A 13” iPad in landscape mode is ~4:3 and an 11” iPad is ~3:2. It’s not like Apple didn’t know, and it’s not like Apple didn’t have access to displays that are better suited to a small machine.